Fear Doirche

Fear Doirche, meaning literally the Dark Man in Irish. A malevolent fairy, the chief agent of mortal abduction, usually in the service of a fairy queen. Very few that are taken by him to fairy land, or the sidhe (Celtic Mythology), ever return to tell the tale.^[1] In Irish mythology he belongs with the Tuatha Dé Danann and is prominent in such tales in the Fenian Cycle as The Birth of Oisín.^[2]

References

↑ MacKillop, James (2000). Celtic Mythology. Oxford University Press. p. 205. ISBN 0-19-280120-1.
↑ Stephens, James (1920). Irish Fairy Tales.

Fairies

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Fairies in folklore

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European folklore

Greek folklore	Dryad Hamadryad Kallikantzaros Lampad Maenad Naiad Nereid Nymph Oceanid Pan Potamides Satyr Silenus

Romanic folklore	Căpcăun Faun Iele Lares Penates Sânziană Spiriduş Squasc Vâlvă Vântoase Zână Zmeu

Slavic folklore	Bagiennik & Bannik Berehynia Domovoi Karzełek Kikimora Likho Polevik Psotnik Rusalka Vila Vodyanoy

Celtic folklore	Tuatha de Danaan

Texts	Daemonologie (1597) Treatises on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants (1751) Goethe's Faust (1832)

See also: Portal Category List of beings referred to as fairies

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